Extremely long and abnormal campaign/battle loading time 17 days ago
Hi,
I'm experiencing a weirdly long map loading time and it seems it is getting worse after patch 6.2. Now the campaign map loading time takes over 10 minutes to even 15 minutes and battle loading time takes over 5 minutes. This is way too long even for HDD drive.
What's more baffling is the CPU usage and real-time disk speed. The campaign map loading will have normally high CPU usage and disk speed for around 2 minutes, which loads to around 80% and the memory will sits at 3.5GB for the TWW3 process based on my setting. Then the CPU usage will drop to ~5% and the disk speed drop to 10MB/s. For the next 10 minutes, it will just remain there and doesn't appear to do anything. The process will have occasional GPU engine tag and non-responding. The last minute before finish loading will have normally high CPU usage and disk speed, which cause the process to use normally high memory like 4.5GB and finish the loading.
Could anyone please provide some insight of what might be going on here? I tried options like disk defragmentation, deleting old saves, clear Roaming cache, moving the game to a different partition, run in admin and/or enforce DX11, lower graphic settings. None of them seem to be working. The long "idle" period in the middle still seems to be there.
Thanks a lot.
Edit:
A bit more context about that "idle" period. The ingame FPS will drop to 1 FPS. In the task manager, the game process will often show as "not responding". And the GPU tag in the GPU engine column will sometimes flicker.